[UA] The Amoromantic Anti-Defamation League

[Patrick Joynt]

Well, after reading the intro story to LawGunMon (I like abbreviatin') I 
kinda figured this:
People who only use minor charges, or have a low avatar skill, are like 
semi-pro card players in the old west. They carry a small pistol in their 
vest, but are really there for shits and giggles - they can go home to the 
farm sooner or later, if they want.  As far as the OU, they're just little 
flames.
Once you pick up that first sig charge (of course, generalizing), that 
second channel, so on and so forth, you're more of the gun on each hip, 
can't go home because then they'll find my parents and kill them, kinda 
gunfighter. And you will never really be able to go back to being a 
"semi-involved" member of the OU - you're hands are dirty already, your 
enemies are made. I figure anyone who tries to back at at this point gets 
yanked around until they're forced back into the mill.
Lastly, you have the real badasses - people who have or have had a major 
charge (or six), the people with the higher level channels, or simply an 
obscenly high "Making people do what I say with the power of my *mind*" soul 
skill.  These are the equivilant of the Clint Eastwoods of the OU; they come 
into town and people *notice.*  Snitches call their bosses, bosses call 
their men, and men go to find you.
What happens when you try to leave this "coveted" position? Think "Shane," 
if you've read it. If not, its short and fun.
This general classification system came from how TNI viewed Neil in roll the 
bones - once you've fired a major charge, all of a sudden you're a *threat.*

How does this relate to Amoromancy? Sure, a low-power, in it for fun 
Amoromancer can just have fun - shallow, empty fun. No worries, that's my RL 
kinda fun.  But if they piss off the wrong person (which is likely - ever 
feel used by "that popular person"?), that person comes after them, and 
minor charges just don't cut it. So they have to get a sig charge, at which 
point its even *more* important that they don't lose it - so they have to be 
even *more* careful not to care.
Part of why I love UA is that while magic is indeed "kewl" and has many 
"powerz," it is an inhuman thing on many levels - which it is, really.
Hope I kept someones attention that whole time,
Patrick



>Am I the only one who thinks that one need not be a stone bastard
>to be an amoromancer? Granted, it *helps*, but I think it's perfectly
>reasonable to be a flirt, gain minor charges and the odd
>significant, and not leave the world a decidedly worse place for it?
>
>Jason, who also believes in polyamory, so perhaps that's a help
>
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>Jason Schneiderman
>jadasc at ma.ultranet.com
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